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Clinical Overview

4West/TICU

Abdominal Trauma
ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME
Thoracic Fluids
Tracheobronchial
ARDS
Bowel Obstruction
GI Bleed
Burn Injury
Bleeding Brains
Brain Death
Status Epilepticus
NSTI

Trauma in Pregnancy and Obstetric Critical Care

*Please take the quiz below the video to receive credit.

Objectives

  1. Review physiological and anatomical changes that occur during pregnancy
  2. Describe the early management of a pregnant trauma patient
  3. Understand other common reasons for ICU admission of the obstetric patient and how to manage these complications

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Trauma in Pregnancy Quiz

Abdominal Trauma

*Please take the quiz below the video to receive credit.

Objectives

  1. Identify patients with risk factors for penetrating or blunt abdominal trauma
  2. Become familiar with evaluation and management algorithms for penetrating and blunt abdominal trauma
  3. Become familiar with basic diagnostic testing for abdominal trauma
  4. Identify patients eligible for non-operative management of liver and splenic injuries

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Abdominal Trauma Quiz

Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

*Please take the quiz below the video to receive credit.

Objectives

  1. Define intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) and Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS).
  2. Describe the physiologic manifestations of IAH and ACS along with their incidence and impact on patient outcomes.
  3. Understand appropriate detection and management strategies for abdominal compartment syndrome.

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Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

Identification and Management of Thoracic Fluid Collections

*Please take the quiz below the video to receive credit.

Objectives

  1. Recognize and treat pneumothorax, hemothorax, pleural effusion, empyema, and chylothorax.
  2. Be familiar with different management strategies for treatment of thoracic collections.
  3. Know options available for managing refractory pneumothorax/hemothorax/pleural effusion.

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Thoracic Fluid Collections

Tracheobronchial Injuries

*Please take the quiz below the video to receive credit.

Objectives

  1. Define tracheobronchial injury
  2. Recognize normal clinical manifestations/radiographic evidence of tracheobronchial injury
  3. Describe appropriate management in the patient with a tracheobronchial injury

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Tracheobronchial

ICU Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

*Please take the quiz below the video to receive credit.

Objectives

  1. Define Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
  2. Describe ARDS pathophysiology and its common causes
  3. Describe common management strategies for a patient who has developed ARDS
  4. Compare and contrast various adjunctive treatments used in the management of ARDS

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ARDS

Bowel Obstruction and Ileus

*Please take the quiz below the video to receive credit.

Objectives

  1. Define and describe the pathophysiology, causes, clinical features, treatment including operative indications, and post operative care of both small and large bowel obstructions.
  2. Discuss the critical care concerns and treatment of patients with small and large bowel obstructions, including institutional policies and protocols and learn how to apply this information in your everyday practice in the ICU.
  3. Recognize the causes, clinical features, associated with ileus and colonic pseudo obstruction.
  4. Articulate the proper treatment and identify possible complications associated with ileus and pseudo obstruction formation, most specifically post operative ileus and oglive’s syndrome.

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Bowel Obstruction & Ileus

GI Bleed

*Please take the quiz below the video to receive credit.

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GI Bleed

Burn and Inhalation Injuries

*Please take the quiz below the video to receive credit.

Objectives

  1. Classify burn size appropriately and understand the importance of doing so.
  2. Articulate the pathophysiology of burn and inhalation injury.
  3. Describe the management of burn patients with an emphasis on thermal burns and inhalation injury I adult patients.
  4. Recite the principles of fluid resuscitation.
  5. Review the UF Health fluid resuscitation protocol

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Burn Management Quiz

Bleeding Brains

*Please take the quiz below the video to receive credit.

Objectives

  1. Understand early management of brain injury
  2. Be able to describe severity of injury and prognosis with current scoring systems
  3. Learn how to manage increased intracranial pressures
  4. Be able to develop a plan to secure the airway of an acutely head injured patient
  5. Know reversal modalities in those with anticoagulant overdose complicated by intracranial bleeding

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Bleeding Brains

Brain Death – Neuro Critical Care

*Please take the quiz below the video to receive credit.

Objectives

  1. Learn how to determine brain death.
  2. List and understand the parameters to determine clinical brain death.
  3. Be able to list the criteria to perform an apnea test.
  4. List and understand the parameters that make an apnea test positive.

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Brain Death

Status Epilepticus

*Please take the quiz below the video to receive credit.

Objectives

  1. Define status epileptics and its various sub-types
  2. Review various medications used in the treatment of status epilepticus along with common side effects and complications of each
  3. Describe an appropriate management strategy for the treatment of status epileptics within the ICU
  4. Briefly discuss other non-pharmacological therapeutic measures for severe or refractory and superrefractory status epilepticus

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Status Epilepticus Quiz

Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections & Necrotizing Fasciitis

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Name(Required)
1. True or False: The term NSTI is a broader category of infections and Necrotizing Fasciitis is a diagnosis under the heading of NSTI.(Required)
2. The bacteria commonly associated with saltwater exposure found in Necrotizing Fasciitis is which of the following?(Required)
3. Which of the following is NOT true regarding Type II Necrotizing Fasciitis?(Required)
4. Which of the following is a risk factor of Fournier’s gangrene?(Required)
5. A patient presents to the ICU with a diagnosis of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection from the Emergency Room. The patient received Zosyn in the emergency room and is waiting for the OR to open. Which of the following antibiotics would you order for this patient while you wait on the OR.(Required)
6. You have corrected the patients antibiotics but have now had the opportunity to talk with the patients family regarding their diagnosis. You ask the family regarding the patient’s recent history of exposures and learn that the patient has recently been a long fishing excursion, which included swimming with the dolphins. Which antibiotic would you add to the patients regimen?(Required)
7. What does a LRINEC score 7 tell you?(Required)
8. True of False: It is ACCEPTABLE to utilize Zosyn and Vancomycin in combination to treat NSTI’s.(Required)
9. Which of the following is FALSE regarding surgical debridement of NSTI?(Required)
10. True or False: You must order the sepsis protocol on all soft tissue infections, necrotizing or not.(Required)